When a custom ROM pops up for a device that already has support, it's like watching another politician join an election. You have two options before you, which way do you go? Are you a pragmatist, ideologically driven, or someone who just wants to tinker around?

But when a phone has been neglected for years, the ROM feels more like a savior. For the Huawei Ascend Mate 2, CyanogenMod has stepped into that role. The project has released CM 13.0 for the Mate 2, giving many owners a way to jump up from their painfully outdated builds of Android 4.2 all the way to version 6.0.